Cultural policies in europe facing the challenges of integration: citizen participation, active citizenship and european identity

Royal Monastery of Yuste, 5-7 October

The course, to be organised in collaboration with the “A Soul for Europe” Initiative aims to show good practices in which culture is the facilitating axis of European integration, citizen participation and democratic development in Europe. It aims to present the opportunities offered by culture as a space to overcome the current challenges of the European Union, such as the refugee crisis and terrorism, developing values ​​such as solidarity, respect and tolerance, that clash with speeches on exclusion, hatred and racism. The course was created to strengthen the lines of action of the European initiative “A Soul for Europe” that promotes the coordination of innovative initiatives, projects and policies that arise in the European periphery, at a local and regional level and from the citizens themselves to build alternatives and solutions to improve integration in the current and future European context.